Guillaume Kigbafori Soro

Gbagbo's arch-rival Alassane Ouattara Forces Nouvelles leader Guillaume Soro and the long-suffering interim Prime Minister Seydou Diarra put their side of the story during visits to South Africa last month...

The team put in place at the state television by Communications Minister Guillaume Soro leader of the rebel Forces Nouvelles has been replaced by a handpicked Gbagbo lineup...

Gbagbo's skill at dividing and ruling may even have stretched to an uneasy alliance against Guillaume Soro's ex-rebel Mouvement Patriotique de la Côte d'Ivoire (MPCI) with Soro's political rival the dissident rebel Ibrahim Coulibaly known as 'IB'...

Guillaume Soro political leader of the rebel Mouvement Patriotique de la Côte d'Ivoire (MPCI) claimed MPCI dissidents loyal to his exiled rival Ibrahim Coulibaly had tried to kill him on 20 June...

Traditional chiefs in the north oppose secession as does Ibrahim Coulibaly who remains in exile accused of plotting a coup against Gbagbo making him less of a threat to the Forces Nouvelles' political leader Guillaume Soro...

The two sides in the conflict are more divided than ever; the rebels now talk seriously of secession and Guillaume Soro Secretary General of the main rebel Mouvement Patriotique de la Côte d'Ivoire has announced plans to pay their forces a regular wage...

The rebels seem to be trying to whip up support for renewed hostilities and the events in Abidjan have diverted attention from a growing rift between MPCI political leader Guillaume Soro and his Paris-based rival Ibrahim Coulibaly (AC Vol 44 No 17) and from more accusations of extrajudicial killings by 'overzealous' rebel soldiers...

Rebel leader and MPCI Communications Minister Guillaume Soro has two bodyguards supplied by Paris...

Gbagbo wants to show his domestic supporters that he's a serious international player but equally that he calls the shots in the cold (and occasionally hot) war with the Forces Nouvelles spearheaded by Guillaume Soro and the Mouvement Patriotique de Côte d'Ivoire...

A ceasefire signed on 3 May between Gbagbo and Guillaume Soro head of the Mouvement Patriotique de la Côte d'Ivoire (MPCI) and de facto ruler of the rebel-held north is in peril (AC Vol 44 No 18)...